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The Justice Department Filed a Misconduct Complaint Against Minnesota Judges Who Spoke to the New York Times

The Justice Department’s complaint against Minnesota’s federal judges has a feature you will not…

By Mark Masterson · Oct 2

President Donald Trump seated grimly at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, with smoke and fires on the horizon outside the windows

Trump Admits to TIME He Extended the Iran War by Choice, Not by Necessity

President Donald Trump told TIME in a White House interview published Wednesday that he…

By Mark Masterson · Oct 1

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Last US Troops Leave Iraq Under a 2024 Deal Trump Is Now Calling a Victory

The last American troops left Iraq on Wednesday, finishing a withdrawal timetable that Washington…

By Mark Masterson · Oct 1

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in a navy suit speaks on stage in front of an American flag backdrop, with service members in the foreground

Hegseth’s Culture War Inside the DOD – Strange Speech to 600 Troops

Pete Hegseth stood in front of about 600 junior officers and senior enlisted troops…

By Mark Masterson · Oct 1

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Trump’s Economy Approval Falls to 26%, Two Points Below Biden’s Worst in the AP-NORC Poll

Only 26% of Americans now approve of Donald Trump’s handling of the economy, according…

By Mark Masterson · Oct 1

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Trump Is Mailing $500 Checks to About 1 Million Obamacare Enrollees. Most of the Other 18 Million Get Nothing.

The payments help “middle-income people who lost subsidies when Congress did not extend enhanced…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 30

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Artificial Intelligence

Trump and Six AI Chiefs Signed a Voluntary Pledge to Police Their Own Models With No Penalties

President Trump and the heads of six AI companies signed a voluntary safety accord…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 30

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a navy blazer speaks at a wooden podium with one hand raised as supporters hold up blank placards in the foreground

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Weighing a 2028 Run, Says She Will Decide After the Midterms

Ocasio-Cortez says she will decide on 2028 after the midterms and asks whether a…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 28

A black-and-white TV ad of Donald Trump walking down a portrait-lined hallway plays on a living room television behind a couch and a bowl of snacks

Taxpayers Are Paying for Trump’s Strongman ‘Final Battle’ Ad, Not His Campaign

The White House spent Sunday’s NFL broadcasts airing a black-and-white Donald Trump promising “a…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 28

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34.5 MPG by 2031: Trump Signs Off on Rolling Back Biden’s Fuel Economy Rules

President Trump said Saturday he has approved new federal fuel economy standards, and his…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 27

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Why Did the Justice Department Close More Than 50 School Desegregation Cases at Once?

The legal test for ending a desegregation order has six parts. The press release…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 27

A continuous-feed voter registration printout open on a county election office desk, several rows marked with red highlighter and paper tabs, a defocused American flag on the wall behind

The Supreme Court Revived Trump’s Voter Citizenship Database, Not the Authority to Purge Rolls

The Supreme Court on Friday let the Department of Homeland Security resume running state…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 25

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Congress Gave the NIH Its Full $47 Billion. The Agency Has Five Days to Spend What Is Left.

Shrink-wrapped military crates strapped to pallets in a dim hangar, with an empty conference table and two vacant chairs in the background at dusk

Trump Called the $14 Billion Taiwan Arms Package, Frozen Since May, a Negotiating Chip

Diplomats in dark suits walk out of the UN General Assembly Hall toward the camera, their backs to Benjamin Netanyahu speaking at the green marble rostrum beneath the gold UN emblem wall

Dozens of UN Delegations Walk Out on Netanyahu’s Speech, and He Calls Them ‘Moral Cowards’

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After the House Passed It in July, the Senate Rejected the Iran War Resolution 49 to 50

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The Navy Disclosed Eight Suicide Attempts on the Lincoln, Not the Steady Picture It Gave in August

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The White House Blocked CNN and MS NOW From Xi’s State Dinner Arrival Hours After a Judge Restored Their Passes

Donald Trump at a White House briefing room lectern, grim-faced, with a red line chart falling steeply on a screen behind him

Trump’s Approval Falls Below 30% for the First Time as Only Two-Thirds of Republicans Approve

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Trump’s White House Press Ban Goes Before the Judge Who Restored Jim Acosta’s Pass

Donald Trump stands alone at the end of a red carpet on an airfield as an Air China Boeing 747 taxis behind him, with a military honor guard holding US and Chinese flags

Why Is Trump Meeting Xi on the Tarmac When Xi Sent a Deputy to Meet Him in Beijing?

An armed federal agent in a tactical vest stands beside a blue car where Wilber Rafael Garces Perez sits hunched over after being shot, frame from video aired by CNN

An ICE Officer Shot an Austin Delivery Driver in the Back. By Dawn He Was in a Detention Cell With the Bullet Still in Him

Donald Trump grips the green marble UN General Assembly rostrum while delegates sit in a half-empty hall

6 Wrong Claims, 1 Walkout: Trump Tells the UN He Could “Annihilate” Iran

Rows of plastic-wrapped ground beef packages in a refrigerated supermarket case, with empty white price tag holders clipped to the shelf rail

The Ground Beef Number Washington Is Quoting Is $9 a Pound, Not the $7.16 the Government Measures

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Pennsylvania Counts Four Measles Deaths, the CDC’s National Tally Counts None

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MS NOW Crews Turned Away at the White House Gate as Trump’s Press Ban Took Effect

American and Danish flags flying side by side beside white geodesic radar domes at a US military installation on a snow plain in Greenland

Trump’s Greenland Deal Promises Basing Rights Washington Has Held Since 1951

The United Nations Security Council chamber seen from behind two empty delegate seats with folded microphones, other members seated around the horseshoe table

Russia and China Vetoed the Iran Sanctions Panel, and It Had Not Worked All Year

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A Judge Ordered Trump to Give 30 Days’ Notice Before Demolishing the Kennedy Center

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Trump Ordered the Justice Department to Let the 1934 Gun Registry Die on October 5